Cambridge Islamic Art

05/04/2024

We are proud to support the special offering of The Legacy Qur’an.

This is a special edition Qur’an designed exclusively for Cambridge Central Mosque by leading masters in calligraphy, manuscript illumination and cover design from Türkiye.

This precious gift is presented with a beautifully designed leather effect and a heavy duty clasp cover. It is calligraphed in Naskh script by grand master calligrapher, Hüseyin Kutlu, who is also the calligrapher for the Mosque’s majestic calligraphed roundels and mihrab panels.

Visit cambridgecentralmosque.org/TheLegacyQuran to find out how to secure your very own copy.

Only available in the final 10 days of Ramadan and while copies remain.

28/06/2023

May this blessed day of Eid bring peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!
Artwork: ‘Iqrā’ - Osman Özçay & Fatma Özçay - 2015 Collection.
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21/04/2023

May this blessed day of Eid bring peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!

Artwork: ‘Doorway to Paradise’ - Ayesha Gamiet - 2017 Collection.

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Ayesha Gamiet: Art, Illustration and Design

08/02/2023

🚨 This event has now been postponed until 25th April, following the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria.

Our prayers and thoughts are with all those affected by the disaster at this extremely difficult and challenging time.

Istanbul Sufi Ceremonies Ensemble is coming to Cambridge!

Come along to 'Whirling Dervishes: Mevlevi Sema Ceremony & Devran Dhikr' for a breath-taking evening of symbolic and spiritual performance and traditional Turkish Sufi music at West Road Concert Hall!

🚨 UPDATE: This event has now been postponed until further notice, following the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. Our prayers and thoughts are with all those affected by the disaster at this extremely difficult and challenging time.

This event, organised by Yunus Emre Institute London and the Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is proudly supported by Cambridge Islamic Art.

03/02/2023

Istanbul Sufi Ceremonies Ensemble is coming to Cambridge!

Come along to 'Whirling Dervishes: Mevlevi Sema Ceremony & Devran Dhikr' for a breath-taking evening of symbolic and spiritual performance and traditional Turkish Sufi music at West Road Concert Hall!

🚨 UPDATE: This event has now been postponed until further notice, following the devastating earthquake in Türkiye and Syria. Our prayers and thoughts are with all those affected by the disaster at this extremely difficult and challenging time.

This event, organised by Yunus Emre Institute London and the Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is proudly supported by Cambridge Islamic Art.

09/07/2022

May this blessed day of Eid bring peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!

Inspired by ‘The Conference of the Birds’ or ‘Mantiq Al-Tayr’ - a long and celebrated Sufi poem of approximately 4500 lines written in Persian by the great poet Farid ud-Din Attar (ca. 1142–1220), who is commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.

Artwork: ‘Conference of the Birds’ - Fatima Zahra Hassan - 2017 Collection.

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F. Zahra Hassan - Visual Artist

01/05/2022

May this blessed day of Eid bring peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!

Artwork: ‘Wadûd’ - Ferhat Kurlu - Turkey - 2015 Collection.

Wadûd’, commonly translated as ‘Loving’, inspired by one of the beautiful names of Allah surrounded by the calligraphic exercise, 'karalama’.

Ferhat Kurlu

19/07/2021

May this blessed day of Eid bring peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!

Artwork inspired by the 'Shāhadah' by ceramicist Parveen Zuberi. Hand carved glazed stoneware with Kufic script fired at 1260 degrees Celsius.

12/05/2021

We pray that the blessed day of Eid brings peace, good health, and safety to you and your loved ones - Eid Mubarak!

The artwork shown here was part of our 2020 collection which was inspired by the ‘Garden of Paradise’ and produced by illumination and miniature painter and master Sema Yekeler. Visit our website to sign-up to our upcoming events.

11/02/2021

Please see full statement from Cambridge Central Mosque regarding the departure of Imam Ali Tos.

29/12/2020

Julia Barfield (Director and Head Architect), Guilherme Ressel (Designer) and Matthew Wingrove (Architect) from Marks Barfield Architects describe the journey of translating Professor Keith Critchlow's hand drawn sketches into what we see today – Europe's first eco-mosque.

Watch the video here: https://bit.ly/2UOFGol

The Prince's School of Traditional Arts

26/12/2020

The Cambridge Central Mosque mihrab tiles originate from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad / Timothy J. Winter provides an overview of these embedded tiles.

View more videos here: https://bit.ly/2UOFGol